I keep telling that I don’t post negative book reviews. It’s because no matter how much I dislike a book, I can be pretty sure that the author made a huge effort writing it. I have absolutely no re...

Let’s have this piece of code that generates a big binary. #include <array> struct Node { int a = 1, b = 1; }; std::array <Node, 10'000> a; int main() {} If you compile this p...

In this example, let’s have a look at how executables are generated, what are the most important executable formats and how they are structured. How executables are generated? In this section let...

Often we start software development, we only care about writing some code. Or actually about writing the most amount of code that is possible. We often don’t really know how to build C++ files, but...

There is barely any day for me without reading a book. On days when I can’t read I really miss it. Sadly there were quite a few such days lately. It feels bad. It feels like my mind is hungry. When...

It’s such a cliché to say that the year was busy. But it was. Probably it’d be better to say it was incredibly fruitful, even though I didn’t meet many of the goals I set for this year. Anyway, it...

I realized that this simple but important difference should be covered twice during the last year. Once when I wrote about how shared and unique pointers take their deleters, and once when I read T...

The first time I - virtually - met Klaus was at C++ On Sea, I think in 2020. He held a workshop about modern software design which I managed to partially attend. He spoke in a slow and friendly man...

C++11 introduced attributes. Even though the language itself only came with two ([[noreturn]] and [[carries_dependency]]), it also provided the unified standard syntax for *implementation-defined l...

This week, let’s continue exploring the new world of C++23. We are going to discuss two new standard library functions and their outputs (std::out_ptr, std::inout_ptr), two new standard library typ...